A first for me....

[LittleMiamiJeff]

My first spoonbill,
http://img411.imageshack.us/img411/4...spoonrsoe4.jpg
Weighed a little over 23 lbs, fought like wild, snagged in tail, and man it took some drag!
Ohio River from KY side.
LMJ

[MsgMills]

Nice fish, surprised you landed that big spoony........

[jcb]

My first spoonbill,
http://img411.imageshack.us/img411/4...spoonrsoe4.jpg
Weighed a little over 23 lbs, fought like wild, snagged in tail, and man it took some drag!
Ohio River from KY side.
LMJ

Awesome! Is that a smallish-sized spinning rod I see on the ground that landed that monster? What pound test?

[mhall]

Ain't it fun to hook stuff like that, I know that was a good ride for sure, them spoonies can really fight especially foul hooked. Fishing that river can be fun, like ole Forrest said, " You never know what your gonna get".

[tracker4stroke]

that is a nice fish good catch

[LittleMiamiJeff]

Awesome! Is that a smallish-sized spinning rod I see on the ground that landed that monster? What pound test?

Funny you say that, it's a 12 foot surf rod with a Shimano baitrunner reel, the small one if you will! Picture is fuzzy because I had the camera in the front pocket of my cooler, didn't realize it would cool it off!
I had just respooled w/spiderwire, 14lb I think.
Hooked just in front of tail in the flesh, so it was able to run, and run, and run, well, you get the idea.
Hard to turn a fish when it's not hooked in the mouth.
Great time.
LMJ

[ToddRose]

nice fish!

[riverrat12]

Many years ago I thought that snagging just wasn't right...Then one year we got into a mess a spoons sauger fishin with light line...Well now I use 50# 60# test every year from Feb.1 threw may10th...what a blast...GOOD FISH!!

[jcb]

Funny you say that, it's a 12 foot surf rod with a Shimano baitrunner reel, the small one if you will! Picture is fuzzy because I had the camera in the front pocket of my cooler, didn't realize it would cool it off! LMJ

Even so, that's a great catch.

The handful of times in the last few years I've fished tailwaters or in the Gulf surf I've wished I had a surf rod...